Five Figure Fanwork Exchange

Thank you for all the work you do! <3

I love seeing recursive fandoms in exchanges, and I also appreciate umbrella fandom posts that clarify how they should be split up, so I'm looking forward to seeing those posts this coming year! (Star Wars hasn't been a huge issue, but it'd be nice to have it codified anyway.)

Letters:
I think that ether of those options is better than deleting letter links. I personally prefer option 2, simply because I think that option 1 will result in you needing to email people like "hey is your letter complete/a general likes list?", because no other exchange I can think of has that requirement and people will forget to make that note even if their letter is complete!

Check-ins:
I have no real feelings about the check-in period, but I think it being "here's a reminder that this event is happening! if you don't feel confident in your ability to finish, please default now to allow PHers more time!" is likely going to be easier on people than needing to remember to post a check-in on dw, a site that not every participant even has an account on/would have an rss feed from, and therefore might not get a reminder about the check-in week existing.

(big bangs and other events like that get around "will everyone look at the place where the check-in is?" by having email as a primary contact method and/or requiring all participants to be on a discord server where they can get pinged, and therefore are able to directly contact all participants and remind them about it. I do not think fffx should do that! but I think it's part of why a mandatory check-in period for an exchange might not work as well as with other events that take place over such a long time.)